Epson Perfection V39

Epson Perfection V39

The Epson Perfection V39 flatbed scanner is an outstanding choice if you want to scan photo prints, as well as brief documents to searchable PDF and editable text styles. It is our top budget pick for top-quality photo scanning.

Epson Perfection V39 Review

The Epson Perfection V39 is a throwback to the type of flatbed scanner that used to be standard. Most flatbeds today can scan movies, a design choice that is mostly a reaction to the appeal of MFPs, which seldom consist of film-scan capability.

The V39 fallen leaves out the ability to scan movies, so you do not need to spend for the feature if you do not need it, and focuses instead on giving you higher-quality checks for photo prints compared to most MFPs can manage. More crucial, it provides enough to earn our new Editors’ Choice for a budget plan home scanner for top-quality photo scanning.

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Epson Perfection V39 – There are just a few general-purpose flatbeds today that share the V39’s lack of a film-scanning feature, consisting of the Canon CanoScan LiDE 120 Color Picture Scanner, which is our preferred pick for a budget plan home scanner for snapshot-quality photo scans; the Canon CanoScan LiDE220 Color Picture Scanner, which the V39 changes as our Editors’ Choice; and the Epson Perfection V19. All these are highly qualified options but not a suit for the V39.

The Canon 120 offers 2,400 pixel-per-inch (ppi) optical resolution, which is much greater than your need to scan pictures to view on-screen or print at their initial dimension. However, the other three models offer 4,800ppi, which allows you to plant a lot smaller-sized area of a photo, expand it, and keep sufficient information compared to you with a reduced resolution.

The V39, Epson V19, and Canon 220 offer top-quality photo checks but vary in various abilities. The Epson V19, for instance, does not have software that will let you scan and conserve to an editable text file, a function that most individuals need at the very least sometimes. The Canon 220 and V39 are more straight comparable and can both scan to editable text style. However, the V39 did better on text acknowledgment in our tests, which is simple enough to give it the side.

Configuration and Software

Epson Perfection V39 measures 1.5 by 9.9 by 14.4 inches (HWD) and evaluates three extra pounds 6 ounces. Setting it up is standard fare. It obtains both power and information over a solitary, provided USB cable television. All you need to do is connect to the cable television and install the software.

You also have the choice of either placing the scanner level on your workdesk or using its incorporated kickstand to position it in a not-quite-vertical angle for your desktop computer. Tester prefers the flat-on-desk position because the kickstand makes it harder to set the photo or document on the flatbed. You might find using the kickstand more suitable, however, as it takes up much less space.

As with the Epson V19 and an expanding variety of various other inexpensive scanners, the V39 comes with basically no applications, so you need to depend on websites such as Evernote and various free downloads such as Picasa for jobs such as managing documents, arranging and modifying pictures, and or else functioning with your checked files.

Unlike the Epson V19, however, the V39 comes with scan energy that consists of a choice to scan and conserve to Microsoft Word style, which at the very least gives you an optical-character acknowledgment (OCR) capability.

Epson Perfection V39 – The provided software consists of 4 separate scan energies (Epson Scan, Scan to PDF, Document Catch Profesional, and ArcSoft Scan-n-Stitch Deluxe), Copy point, Twain, and WIA driver, which let you scan straight from almost any Home windows program with a scan regulate, and Easy Photo Scan, which not just checks, but allows you send out your reviews to an option of locations.

The Epson Scan energy phone telephone calls up the Twain drivers so you can use it straight. The Scan to PDF energy checks for choosing a picture PDF or searchable PDF (pdf) file. It also allows you to scan additional web pages to the same file by selecting the Scan switch in the energy each, and finish by choosing the utility’s Finish switch to conserve the file to disk.

Document Catch Profesional is the energy type that you are most likely to obtain with a file scanner. It allows you to scan to a selection of picture and text styles, consisting of Word files, and also offers advanced features, such as enabling you to produce scan accounts.

With Scan-n-Stitch, you can take several checks of web pages that are too big for the letter-size flatbed, and after that, electronically sew them with each other right into a solitary picture. The program allows you to pick any one of several paper dimensions from lawful to poster dimension, which needs ten separate checks, in 2 rows of 5 reviews each, and after that strolls you through each step.

Epson Perfection V39 – Easy Photo Scan allows you to scan a photo, see the outcome on screen, do some basic modifying, such as chopping and turning the picture, and after that send out the file to a folder on disk, send out it by e-mail, or submit it to among several websites, consisting of Picasa, Twitter and Google, Evernote, and SugarSync.

Scanning and Scan Quality

Scanning is easy. Introduce the energy you want to use, change setups if possible, and give the scan regulation. As is typical for scanners today, the Epson scan drivers offer several settings, varying from fully automated, which is equivalent to a point-and-shoot location in a video camera, to Advanced set, which gives you great deals of control but can be frustrating if you are not experienced in scanning options.

The fully automated setting handles most checks, all right that it may be all you will ever need. However, some features require manual setups. The Color Restore option, for instance, does an outstanding job of improving the color of discolored pictures. Still, you need to use the non-automated settings to access the location.

Photo-scan quality is close to excellent. I saw a slight color shift in my tests, but memory colors—like green turf and blue sky—and flesh tones were well within an appropriate range. The scanner also did an outstanding job keeping information based upon shading over the whole range, from the black-on-black styles of a coat to the white-on-white patterns in wedding apparel in the same test photo.